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President Obama, Census Bureau Looking at Ways to Recognize Same-Sex...
Pres. Obama and the White House are now looking at ways to include same-sex marriages, unions and partnerships in 2010 Census data – another small step of what we hope will be a larger agenda toward...
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PFAW Opposes Unconstitutional Vitter-Bennett Amendment
Today, People For the American Way was represented by our General Counsel Debbie Liu at a press conference to oppose the Vitter-Bennett amendment, which would require Census workers to ask all...
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Mississippi is 37% Black; It May Soon Have Its First African American Federal...
Last week’s appointment of James E. Graves Jr. to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals didn’t get a lot of attention. But his nomination represents a remarkable milestone. Graves is currently the only...
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Alabama County Brings the Voting Rights Act to Court
An 87% white county in Alabama is arguing that some of the anti-discrimination protections in the Voting Rights Act are no longer necessary…and its case might end up in the Supreme Court.Shelby County...
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Scalia Asked to Withdraw from Speaking to Bachmann’s Far-Right Caucus
As first reported by Right Wing Watch, Justice Antonin Scalia is set to lecture about the Constitution for the opening class of Rep. Michele Bachmann’s new Constitutional Conservative Caucus. Bachmann,...
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PFAW urges you to contact Congress tomorrow on Equal Pay Day
Equal pay in America needed to be put back on track after the devastating Ledbetter ruling, and the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act answered that call – but it wasn’t the last word. The Paycheck Fairness...
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Wisconsin News Round-Up, 8/2
More news from Wisconsin: Election Day is only a week away, but there’s still a long road ahead. RNC Chair Reince Priebus, in a spectacular failure of expectations management, said Friday that the RNC...
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Wisconsin News Round-Up, 8/5
News from Wisconsin:Election Day is only four days away, but there’s still a long road ahead. RNC Chair Reince Priebus, in a spectacular failure of expectations management, said Friday that the RNC is...
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ACLU DNA, Lead Paint, and the Judges who Made it Through GOP Obstruction
As we like to remind anyone who will listen, the current GOP senate has been shameless in its enthusiasm for obstructing judicial nominees just for the sake of obstruction. For instance, a PFAW memo on...
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To Defeat Obama, A Simple, Dishonest Plan
We’ve been covering a number of attempts by state GOP lawmakers to prevent traditionally Democratic voters from casting votes that count – including a flood of new laws requiring photo ID to vote.But...
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